Serving Vallejo
Structural Drying & Dehumidification in Vallejo, CA
Commercial dehumidifiers and air movers remove moisture from the structure, with daily readings logged from the material itself for claim documentation. Structural drying brings building materials back to a documented dry standard using air movers and dehumidifiers rather than surface evaporation alone. Moisture readings are logged through the process so the substrate, not just the surface, is confirmed dry before anything is rebuilt.
Frequently asked questions
One end of the house has moved and the other has not.
On a benched hillside lot that is the usual pattern, because the two ends are standing on different things. The back sits on cut ground, which is original and firm; the front sits on fill, which was placed and which settles when it takes on water. The difference shows up as cracking that runs diagonally and doors that stick at one end only. Keeping water out of the fill is what slows it.
Water arrives from the street rather than from the sky.
On grades this steep the road becomes the channel, and everything from the blocks above passes down it. A driveway that dips below the road crown, or a garage set at street level on the downhill side, is directly in that path. The remedy is at the property line rather than at the building: a raised lip, a channel drain across the entrance, and somewhere for what it catches to go.
The cut bank behind the house weeps all winter.
It would, because a cut exposes the inside of a hillside that stays saturated from November to March, and the water that used to travel through that ground now emerges at the face. Retaining it without draining it simply puts pressure behind the wall. A drain at the base of the cut, discharging around the house rather than under it, is the arrangement that works on these lots.
This FAQ belongs to the Vallejo page; it is repeated here.